Monday, April 14

I forget who was that said that there is a moment in a child's life
when he is reading the Narnia novels and some grown-up tells him "Of
course, you realise that Aslan is really Jesus"
and the kid realises that he can never trust an adult again. As with
Pilgrim's Progress, as with Narnia, as with all such
books, the students are going to end up fucking hating capitalism for
ruining an otherwise perfectly decent novel.

Posted just now, by one Warehouse:

Would it not be fairer to say the authors ruined the novels? And what the
hell does a form of government, namely capitalism, have to do with the
interpretation of literature?